February 4, 2021             New Orleans      In the old culture of the Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO, where Local 100 and I spent twenty-five years, I would be buying a plane ticket for John Sweeney’s funeral right now, if the pandemic allowed it.         It would be expected, and …

January 30, 2021 Pearl River     There hasn’t been a press release or news conference from the new Pentagon secretary or the Joint Chief of Staffs of the military arms of the United States that announces an internal shift in priorities, but if you put your ear to the ground, you can hear a serious cleanup …

January 26, 2021 New Orleans  When ACORN began in Little Rock, the next city where we organized was Pine Bluff in 1971, a river and mill town about 50 miles down the Arkansas River.         The first organizer there was Herman Davenport, who I had poached from the Pulaski County Legal Aid …